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Dylan, great video thanks for sharing. You talk about being mindful about recreational habits and staying on designated trails. On the other side of Highway 9 (the UCSC side) there is a crazy network of mountain bike trails built by “volunteers”. There are no sanctioned trails in this area of Cowell. I wonder why managers do nothing about this? Also I went bike camping for two nights at Portola Redwoods State Park weekend before last. We did a hike out to the Peter’s Creek Loop. Beautiful place too! Saturday morning there was a researcher by the park HQ who was very upset about a fir tree that was cut down right next to the park HQ on Monday June 24th. This tree was supporting a colony of Pedicularis Dudleyi, or Dudleys Lousewort, a plant that's on the rare plants list too. A ranger named Andrew Dobbs happened to pull up. He was asked to provide a permit and CEQA approval to remove this tree by this gentleman and would not produce any of this information for him. None of the staff inside knew anything about this tree removal and were unable to provide this information either. A bunch of the Lousewort had been trampled and destroyed by the crew that did the tree removal. No protection was given to these rare plants and removing their supporting tree will most certainly kill them. This was very disturbing for me. I'm trying to figure out who to contact about this and would like any direction you can provide. This is also probably an example of improper land management, which you spoke of as well. It’s important to protect these plants!

Fascinating, info-packed film, deserves an award! I learned many new things…and appreciated the elements of hope following Redwood Forest fires, they otherwise make me feel so heart-broken.

Wow‼️ Great video

Awesome video!! Loved it, thank you. I found a rubber boa on a trail near my house about a week ago. I'd never seen one here before, so it was pretty exciting!

Great video!❤

So cool!

Just saw this! Beautiful video

I love this- well done!

Amazing content 👏

Stop burning our Forrest!

Even the Left doesn't believe that humans cause global climate change because they don't heed their own recommendations.

This is literally unwatchable

It can all be reversed with YOUR money.

We have climate change here in the Midwest also. In the summer, it’s hot, and then fall comes, and it cools off a bit and the leaves fall. Then we have winter when it’s kind of cold and it snows quite often and then we have spring when the snow melts and it warms up again. It’s been going on for a long time we like our climate change. We used to call it the change of seasons, which is what we still call it here. But I guess technically you could call it climate change.

I didn't know this park exists. Thank you for sharing :D the landscape looks so unique! :3

Stellar!!

Thank you to all the fungi for making existence possible for me

What a fantastic video, I love your enthusiasm and how you are bringing awareness to such a unique environment.

For these gullied trails, might The Park want to permanently shut these down? Could work, and the plants generating duff, to fill them in. What more might you want to tell us the Ponderosas and Knobcones that not only hold their own, but sometimes mingle freely, within the Redwoods? And, are there, or are there NOT Coulters and BIG CONE Douglas Firs, in The Park? Some insist that there are. Along the Klamath and Trinity greater watersheds, are places where Sugar Pines and Ponderosa Pines make uncharacteristic dips in elevation, to share territories with the Redwoods up there, and sporadic Grey Pines, too. Coulters mingle with Redwoods in Big Sur.

Thank you! What a treat!

Great video but i have to ask why is his top shirt button fastened, shoul only be fastened when wearing a tie, unless of course theres a personal reason

That was a lovely, interesting, and informative video. Thank you for sharing it. You called it a park expansion. Where is it / how do we get there? I wish you had included a map so we had a better idea of where you are talking about. The major downside that I see about this park, as well as for attempting to keep everyone on the trails, is how the narrowness of the trails you showed. Those narrow trails make it impossible for mobility impaired to use and stay.

Thank You for creating & sharing this informative video! I’d never heard of this ecosystem before 🤗 When a plant, like monkey flower, is threatened, do you gather seeds and attempt to propagate it?

This Gorgeous area has been my playground since 1978.... So very blessed

What a fabulous video. Never knew about the Sandhills before. Can't wait to see that part of the park also. Thanks.

Shouldn't there be a couple coast redwood groves growing in the sandhills? I didn't see any in the video, but with all that coastal fog and occasional thick needle substrate, it should at least be encroaching on the outskirts right? Seems to me like this area has way more in common with El Dorado national forest than it naturally did in the past.

I've seen the ben lomond spineflower popping up around the carmel highlands! I'll have to mark it on iNat next time I'm out there! :)

Amazing & wonderful!

Thanks for the video! One of my favourite habitats in one of favourite parks. First place I ever saw velvet ants and a huge variety of lizards. Looking forward to the next video :)

Great video!

@19:20, transform faults can also be formed by adjacent plates, terranes or blocks moving in the same direction, at different average speeds and rates; but the relative motion makes the fault appear that the land masses are in opposing directions, much like the lanes of a freeway in the same direction. I respectfully disagree with the status quo consensus that the Farallon Plate was consumed by pushing the plate North en bloc into subduction; imho, the South Gorda plate's accomodational distortion and lack of distortion in the North Gorda and JDF plates strongly shows no en bloc movement, just the Southern margin localized compressional truncation via the Pacific plate's oblique NW passive thrust of the ESE South Gorda plate. Franciscan meta-sedimentary and meta-igneous rocks can be found 90 miles North of the Or-Cal border @Bandon, Oregon's Merchants, Agate and Sacchi beaches; parts of Bandon's South Coquille river jetty is made from a local blue schist quarry. Blue and green schists, greenstone, gabbro and quartzite can be readily found as egg-sized to bread loaf-sized cobbles on these beaches; the hidden outcrops offshore these beaches indicate that the Franciscan Assemblage is indeed in (rear-end) collision with the Siletz Terrane, thus being the mechanism for the 1 degree per million year NW rotation of Western Oregon and Washington.

Great presentation answering some of my burning (excuse the bad pun) questions about fire recovery in our beloved Sanat Cruz Mountains! Thank you for your work...

Thank you so much for posting the recording!!! I missed the virtual meeting and grateful to watch Dr Russell's talk! 😀

He needs to stick the videography. He don’t know shit about true California Indian history. Why these Anglos think they can come in and tell OUR story GTFOH

These are one of the most common species in the U.S. 🙄 Just because you don't see them, it doesn't mean they are endangered. They are naturally shy and spend most of their time underground or in root masses, rotted logs, dead foliage, etc.

Will - something to also consider. Beaver were exterminated on the west coast in the mid-late 1800's. Beaver ponds would of course raise river levels, even in the summer, and then potentially and naturally be destroyed in flood event rains, only to be rebuilt again in the Spring. Since beaver on most (if not all) of the Santa Cruz rivers and creeks are gone, seems this would also be a significant detriment to the river, salmon, steelhead and other species and show areas of "incision" that are old. Couple that with the onslaught of logging it's a double whammy for the river and wildlife. Undoubtedly, logging would have also stripped beaver dams if any were left by then. Our problem presently is the greed Santa Cruz is filled with, taking all the water from the SLR in critical rearing months when the river is no longer a river anymore - all for the sake of building more and taking more water.

Thank you for sharing this. Much appreciated.

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Somehow, TH-cam recommended this to me and this is amazing. It's great to know that native Americans have been doing well pre-contact and have been living off very well in handling their own. Great video. Keep it up.

Thanks for reminding us that everyone born before 1995 was a "racist." Now be quiet.

My current understanding is Native American culture, including the conflicts and diplomacy between tribes, definitely had complexity of it's own; as for being advanced, my current understanding is their cultures & spiritual beliefs were not conducive to fostering the drive to develop technologies other civilizations had.

Never believe state funded info

So Horrible 😢

I've always found it ridiculous how people studying Native Americans use "complexity" as an argument to try and prove that these cultures were somewhat "advanced" or well "organized"... "Complex societies" is a pretty loose description that doesn't mean much. All human societies in history were "complex" in their own ways. All human societies were "organized" as well, and had "complex" relations with their environment and neighbouring cultures... I get that the first European settlers might have had an arrogant perspective on these societies, but the real issue is whether or not their organization and complexity led to security, prosperity, free-will and capabilities to accomplish greater things than just survival. Sure, Native Americans had "complex" societies, but it doesn't mean that it brought them safety against raids, conquests, famine, injustice, brutality, etc. The very fact that they were invaded by European is, in itself, a proof that their "complex" organization wasn't able to protect them efficiently against the rough conditions here on earth.

there's a categorical complexity difference between civilizations with aqueducts, sewage systems, cathedrals, ocean-faring vessels, star maps, and gunpowder and civilizations with stone-age tech and no writing. One major difference is life expectancy - another is the ability to defend yourself from outsiders. The idea that illiterate tribespeople had a "complex" society on par with Spain (or China, or Japan, or the Abassid Caliphate for that matter) is laughable. What's next? Headhunters in Taiwan had the same civilizational complexity as Meiji Japan? Aborigines have the same civilizational complexity as a civilization that split the atom and sent a man to the moon? Don't be disingenuous and don't spread propaganda, however well-intentioned. Complexity is a real feature. Perhaps your organization are Ted Kaczinskyists and think that industrialization led to a "worse" civilization and that we should return to foraging for acorns and dying of parasitic infection, but you can't argue that such societies are equally complex.

I don’t hear this “myth” coming from the Missions today. Every Mission I visit display Native Californians with respect and recognize the complexities of that era. If there is a “myth” here, it is that the Missions still promote the viewpoints expressed in this video.

I think in the USA you have a lot of confusion about what is the difference between studying History, and "celebrating" History as a model. Celebrating History is almost a medieval concept, very distant from modern critical thinking. Nowadays, for example, we study George Washington, not because we think he was a great man, celebrating him as we would like to be like him, but because we think that studying the past is important and necessary to know the present and who we are. In this way, it's understandable the shock of those people who, lack critical thinking, when they discover that the great man also owned slaves, or that the great works have something in them that doesn't correspond to their values, they panic because don't have the critical maturity to say: "who gives a s**t? I don't study the Greeks because I wish the world was still like it was in their time, I study the Greeks because they developed things that are still valuable, and without them, I understand less the world where I live". On the contrary, If you already reached the level where you keep a statue of George Washington until you discover that he owned slaves, then you're already at the bottom. Now, talking about this video, the title was very promising, but who made it probably has a huge lack of critical thinking. On one side very generous in using words such as "eurocentric, racist, ignorant", and so on, talking about the only ones who wrote something about the natives, but on the other side they give no clues or proof of what they are asserting. Someone would expect that they found some archeological pieces of evidence, but here I see only some cartoons of the supposed cornucopia of goods and a confused map of the California tribes. Probably answering questions like "What was the pre-contact child mortality among the natives?" or "Which was the average expectation of life?" would answer the question. But probably those questions would bring the need for historical research and critical thinking, which this channel or the girl speaking clearly lacks. The modern trend is to judge past civilizations (like 17th-century Spaniards), showing off how superior we are, and how we despise them and their values, it's the same attitude that Westerners used to have in front of other civilizations they were conquering during the age of colonies. So don't polish yourself.

Whether you like it or not, the Spanish accounts that the natives lacked basic non-astronomic time keeping, complex social organizations, and a deep understanding of agriculture is just true. Europeans too could have simply subsisted off the signs of the night sky, tribal leaders, and hunting and gathering. Europeans, however, developed methods to create a surplus of resources that allowed for further civilizational complexity. These accounts were not "racist," they were accurate.

so cute bird